JONATHAN TURLEY: Liberal justice's swipe at Kavanaugh latest sign of SCOTUS' slipping standards

This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. ©2026 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Market data provided by Factset. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Legal Statement. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by LSEG. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor discusses her frustration with being in the ideological minority on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert." Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is accustomed to unrelenting personal attacks from the Left that began with his nomination to the nation's highest court. This week, however, the ad hominem insults came not from cable news pundits or Democrats, but from his own colleague on the bench. Justice Sonia Sotomayor used an appearance at the University of Kansas School of Law to level a personal dig at Kavanaugh as an out-of-touch elitist. I have long criticized the growing number of public statements by justices on controversial subjects and cases, including Sotomayor. However, this appearance represented a new low in lashing out at a colleague as effectively blinded by his own privilege. In her comments, Sotom